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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
The soil knowledge library (KLIB) – a structured literature database on soil process research
Hans-Jörg Vogel
Bibiana Betancur-Corredor
Leonard Franke
Sara König
Birgit Lang
Maik Lucas
Eva Rabot
Bastian Stößel
Ulrich Weller
Martin Wiesmeier
Ute Wollschläger
Abstract. In this technical note, we introduce a web-based application, the soil knowledge library (KLIB), for the compilation and classification of scientific publications on soil process research according to the specific site conditions and experimental boundary conditions. The tool was developed based on the understanding that experimental findings in soil science are highly dependent on soil type, land use and climate. The KLIB, therefore, goes beyond other available digital libraries by providing meta-data on the site conditions and experimental settings for each publication. A number of visualization tools have been developed to explore the contents of the literature database very efficiently in order to support and facilitate the literature search efforts of the users. The KLIB is designed as a collaborative effort to encourage soil scientists to participate by entering their own studies and extending the existing database.
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Status: open (until 02 Jul 2023)
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RC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2023-847', Anonymous Referee #1, 17 May 2023
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1. There are quite a lot of grammatical and style issues with the presentation that distract from ease of reading. There are also many examples of non-scientific terms such as 'pretty' that are going to confuse people for whom English is a second language.
2. The rationale for the tool is good, and is well explained.
3. Paragraph beginning line 69: several statements are made that read more as opinions instead of evidence. Given that this is where you are justifying a large part of the effort required for involvement, I think your statements need to have good evidence here.
4. There are probably as many different ways to design this kind of system as there are soil scientists. Please give a bit more justification for the structure of the overall system, particularly in terms of which factors are considered important for data entry.
5. The Technical Implementation section needs to come much earlier, so that the reader can visualise not just what you have done, but how you have done it. I suggest having it as section 3.2.
6. The Technical Implementation section does not contain enough detail for the work to be duplicated.
Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-847-RC1
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